Tag: Booker

One is Booker T. Washington (1856–1915), who, “by insisting that Black people stay poor, uneducated, and docile,” became “a wealthy man, pointedly disregarding his own advice.” He emboldened white supremacists, as they could then point to a Black man who was m...

A staff member in one of the prisons told me once that I could have done something with my life, and I often think about what my alternative might have been. But I came up with nothing. I never had the freedom to be a kid. My friends and the older dudes I looked up to were all on the streets; there&...